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...The firm has made a number of well-timed and well-priced acquisitions like those of Smith Barney and the E*Trade broker network. But it’s also been acquiring brokers team by team....
...In April 1956, Malcom McLean defied dockworkers’ unions by loading 58 containers on to the Ideal-X in Newark, New Jersey, and sailing to Houston, Texas....
...He more or less took up residence outside the newspaper of his choice, bombarding it with e-mails, until eventually he was allowed in as an unpaid intern....
...While e-commerce is a fact of life, goods bought in the virtual world still have to be moved around using old-world, physical transportation systems....
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